Covering all those bases, So Fresh it Hurtz[Click to View YouTube Video]played within the 50 mile radious that I allow myself to go to, too.
Boy did I pick the wrong show....
Should have gone to see David B, not the freebee B Weird & the Wolfs(not bros by the way)

Michael Hedges was a revolutionary, lucky to have seen him live. The modern acoustic guitarists I'm following are Antoine Dufour, Eric Mongrain, Jon Gomm, anyone on the Candyrat label, really. Gomm released a series of instructional videos on youtube if you want to learn his unique percussive technique. Meanwhile here's Beethoven's fifth played by the young Marcin Patrzalek.

https://youtu.be/qASYNtPKYgQ
This guitar I proudly own now thanks to Johntp and Mark Blanchard. If you play guitar and can ever get your hands on a Blanchard guitar, by all means do it! They are works of art, play like a dream, sound like nothing else and make you play the guitar more from the sheer joy of what they are. I wish the video focused more on details of the guitar. Mark’s attention to detail is impeccable. The pua inlay is ALL perfectly matched in the rosette and fret board inlay, with incredible colors in different light. The sound boards tight grain and “clawing” is gorgeous, even the smell of the madagasgar rosewood is mindblowing. Yeah sometimes I just pick up the guitar...stick my nose in the sound hole and take some deep breaths.....eKat will get it,
Thank you John, Mark and eKat!
Peace

Disclaimer edit: not me playin’ it

Credit: ron gomez

Credit: ron gomez

First shot is of Mark presenting the Pinyon named Wil in Yosemite Valley after the Bridwell Memorial. Second shot, the same day playing Wil in El Cap Meadow for my buddy Jim. The look on my face says it all...pure bliss

Thanks all who are posting some amazing music here! Just when I was lamenting the state of pop music, I see how much the music industry has fragmented and exploded in myriad pieces, some of which are incredible.

I saw this tour live in San Diego in about 1993. Just neil, a stool, a guitar, and harmonicas most of the night except this song he busted out the acoustic organ. Only heard the epic distorted version before seeing this live, and it stunned me:
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There were two girls I liked that I went to this concert with. I started with two tickets somewhere in the back, bought the third ticket in the second row! But I hung back to stay with the ladies for most of the show if not all. Priorities! But I loved how he took his harmonicas after each song, dipped it in a bucket of water, and flung the water across the stage.

Damn, that seems like a lifetime ago. Some good times. Amazing how life keeps going and it feels like I have lived multiple lives and more to come. I could have done a lot worse on this trip in the flesh.